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The scene is set in an Alaskan mountain inn, in which Sarah has found employment.
Hilda is the daughter of Frank Keenan; he has made sure that the stage details of the sketch have been properly looked after.
"Sarah" - Hilda Keenan plays Sarah, a coarse, unlettered feminine type, using the slangiest slang imaginable and a penchant for "kidding" everybody, even her old dad, Dan Conners (Thomas O'Malley), whom she meets after many years under peculiar circumstances and stakes her last ten dollars on him to gamble with. He has become indebted to Bart Knott (John P. Piaza) for $200, for which he has given a bill of sale on the mine.The father outwits Knott, winning $300. There is also a jolly cook, Mrs. Williams (played by Marie Haynes). There is no great acting required of Miss Keenan and her company as the main focus of the sketch is the slang, fluently employed by her.
The audience received her well as Frank Keenan's daughter.
Miss Keenan meets reasonable expectations in the grossly exaggerated, highly colored and hard to imagine character. She invoked much laughter as the slang thrower, but a noticeable nervousness hindered her efforts somewhat. The slang and family prestige will likely carry the sketch through.
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Variety 22:4 (04/01/1911)